We trawled the Net for this month’s most entertaining clips…
Race Face
That final push in any competitive sport is all about intensity. It’s about pushing yourself to your limits. And pulling funny faces.
Wicked Worm
Falling is embarrassing. Running the sprint, then falling over the finish line, in front of a crowd, is even more embarrassing. Unless you bust out the worm!
From WTA to WTF
Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova are pretty impressive tennis players, as well as media darlings. But Caroline couldn’t pull off a prank if her life depended on it.
Floored!
The worst way to lose a fight is by way of knockout. Even worse than that, is knocking yourself out! Game over.
Slip n slide
There are many ways to score goals in an NHL ice-hockey shootout. Devin Setoguchi demonstrates how not to do it.
Linsane Linovations
The Jeremy Lin bandwagon is still going strong and the Yanks are taking the whole Linsanity thing too far. This parody video is as ridiculous as all the hype.
Super sub
It sucks being assigned to the bench while your teammates get to have all the fun. But college basketball player Peter Dill may beg to differ – he gets in on the action, from the bench, every single time his Seton Hall Pirates score.
Heebow!
Tim Tebow has had his time to shine, but now has some serious competition in other faiths. Introducing, Heebow. “He’s the Jewish football star!” Keep an eye out for Heebowing – all the cool kids will be doing it soon.
HTFU, mate!
That’s what Chopper Read would tell Minnesota Timberwolves player Michael Beasley if their paths ever crossed. Beasley is built like Andries Bekker, but definitely cannot take a hit like Bekker can. Cry baby.
Moves like Badger
If you’re okay with your nickname being “Honey Badger” and you have some badass moves on the football field, then a mash-up of a meme and a hit song is inevitable, as is the case with hotshot college player Tyrann Mathieu.
Shocker
A Norwegian TV show fitted shock collars on a soccer team, including the ref, and proceeded to have a ball of a time electrocuting them. We can think of a few pros who could use one of these…
Victory dance
Meanwhile, in America, this is what you get subjected to when an idiot scores a touchdown. Watch it again in slow motion, for extra idiotic effect.
Belgian Bok
The Belgians also get in on the action. Check out this guy declaring his undying love for his South African girlfriend, by adopting the Springboks as his team. At least they make good waffles.
Face plant
Face, meet dirt. Juan Román Riquelme of Boca Juniors overestimates his fancy footwork ability, trips, and falls flat on his face. Then tries to cover it up. Smooth.
Angry Management
What happens when a bunch of soccer players with deadly accurate boots get bored? Why, they bring Angry Birds to life, of course. Who wouldn’t?
Put Up Yer Dukes
Watch Floyd Mayweather Sr, 61, put Internet clown and wannabe boxer Charlie Zelenoff in his place. Still, the delusional Zelenoff insists he won this “bout”.
Stick Hockey
Once a brawler… Andrei Nazarov, former NHL pro and current head coach of Vityaz Chekhov, still has plenty of fight in him, as this spectator found out.
December Best of YouTube
Sell It Like Beckham
Anything for a little publicity, eh Beckham? Witness Beckham behaving like Ellen DeGeneres’ personal ventriloquist dummy, promoting his own perfume, in a department store.
The NBA Lockout, For Dummies
If the NBA lockout has left you more confused than a soccer player on a rugby field, this nifty little Taiwanese animation explains it in detail. Hilarious detail!
Knocked The Puck Out!
Seems we got it all wrong when we thought ice-hockey was about mixing figure skating and street hockey – apparently there’s a little boxing involved too, as demonstrated by this sweet TKO.
KO’d or Kimbo’d?
From backyard street fighter, to failed UFC brawler, to hard-punching semi-pro boxer, Kimbo Slice is just trying to make a living, man. Still, he’ll only gain credibility as a pugilist once he’s able to knock out proper opponents in this fashion.
Best of YouTube: November
Nutcracker
Julian Velazquez is a defender for Argentinian football club CA Independiente, and he is not afraid to take one for the team, a la Phil Babb. An excellent argument for the inclusion of “ball” cups in soccer.
Come again?
Could this be the strangest Pirates fan ever? We’re still trying to figure out what Goodenough Sithole is saying, but if you’re able to decipher his replies, drop us a line. Please.
A “Lille” West End
Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Cole’s priceless performance of Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner during his initiation at Lille. “It was a better rendition than the one I did at Chelsea,” Cole joked. “The only difference was this time the lads were a bit nicer.”
What’s A Little Bias?
If you don’t know who Tiziano Crudeli is, this video sums it up excellently. Basically he’s an Italian football commentator. And staunch AC Milan fan. And no, he’s not afraid to show it.
October
The bigger they are…
…the further they hurl. And we’re not talking about the traditional Irish sport. “Pro” wrestling may be fake (no, really), but the physical demands are real and unfit folk are liable to barf when pushed too far. Fact.
Boogie man
Sir Bobby Charlton, he of Manchester United folklore, shows some young whippersnappers how it’s done. Oh, the flailing fish next to him is retired cricketer, Michael Vaughan.
The special pinch
José Mourinho has an impish side and here’s the proof. The Special One is caught (on camera) imparting a special pinch to Barcelona assistant coach Tito Vilanova. Cheeky. There were “eye gouging” claims, but it all seems pretty harmless.
Gooooooooolllll!!
To truly appreciate this video clip, you have to turn up the volume, sit back, and wait for the commentator to work himself up into a frenzy! Can you imagine Brosnihan or Geerdts reaching these heights? No? Oh well.
Best Of YouTube: September
What a feeling!
After watching this video, we began to wonder about how Benn Robinson really injured himself… Another brilliant effort by some antipodean rugby players who aren’t afraid to take the piss.
Commercial brakes
Man, Spanish videos are taking over YouTube, but some are real pearlers, like this one. Clearly this presenter hates breaking for commercials mid-debate… and his producer, Moses.
Awkward TV
What happens when you hand a socially awkward (think Napoleon Dynamite) dude a camera and mic to go out and interview MLB players and fans? This. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll cringe.
One hit wonder
Apparently the odds of a hole-in-one are around 12500 to 1… Guess that puts retired NHL hockey player Joe Sakic squarely in that niche bracket, after he sank a sweet shot to earn a cool mil, US.
Best of YouTube: August
Match point
Despite having his 43-match winning streak broken, Novak Djokovic still retained his sense of humour when Caroline Wozniacki playfully hijacked his pre-Wimbledon press conference. Wozniacki unconvincingly posed as a reporter from “the Monaco newspaper” and fired off some lighthearted questions, which Djokovic ably return-served with some of his own trademark wit. This flirtatious interplay only added weight to the rumours doing the rounds about the tennis champ duo being romantically linked. A match made in centre court?
Crazy about winning
There’s celebrating, and then there’s celebrating! Novara Goalkeeper Alberto “Jimmy” Fontana absolutely lost the plot when his team won and gained promotion to Serie A for the first time in 55 years. He threw himself into a branded interview backdrop, shouted from the “rooftop” of the subs’ bench, ran around pants-less with a fire extinguisher, and randomly kissed people on camera. The 36-year-old is not even his club’s first-choice goalie, but after this performance, he’s definitely their No 1 cheerleader.
Smack my pitch up
Point guard John Wall might have been Washington Wizards’ first pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, but his basketball skills clearly don’t translate well in the world of baseball. The “first pitch” ceremony has seen its share of gaffes over the years, but as a pro athlete Wall must have felt bleak after this attempt. His throw was even likened to a similar blooper by Mariah Carey back in 2008, when she (badly) threw the first pitch at a Japanese game.
Best of YouTube:July
Good hands
Here we go again – is that video real or fake? Evan Longoria (not to be confused with the desperate housewife, Eva) plays Major League Baseball for the Tampa Bay Rays and is known for making amazing catches. But this is a bit much, even for him. In the clip, he’s being interviewed by a reporter when a stray ball heads straight for them. Seemingly on instinct, Longoria catches the ball with his bare hands and saves the reporter from certain concussion! See it to believe it. Or not.
Come again?
Your team just won the FA Cup final and emotions are running high, so surely you’re allowed to express yourself? Well, to a point. First, Manchester City’s Micah Richards let the F-bomb slip, and then when Mario Balotelli was asked to weigh up his own performance compared to other occasions, his reply included a simple “all my season was shit” before realising his faux pas. The foul-mouthed pair came under fire, but got off lightly when FA officials decided against taking action.
Spider streaker
If you’re going to invade a sports field while a game is in progress, unless you want to face serious repercussions, you need to make sure you have a clear escape route. In the absence of a clear exit, improvise, like this agile pitch invader does! After running out in the middle of a baseball game, it seems as if it’s tickets for this guy… until he performs one acrobatic feat after another to slip through the long arm of the law. The fans loved it.
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